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Like The Lovely Bones and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Cammie McGovern s breakout novel is at once a hypnotic thriller and an affecting portrait of people as real as our next-door neighbors. In Eye Contact, two children vanish in the woods behind their elementary school. Hours later, nine-year-old Adam is found alive, the sole witness to his playmate s murder. But because Adam has autism, he is a silent witness. Only his mother, Cara, can help decode his behavior for the police. As the...

From the acclaimed author of "Just My Luck" comes a humorous and heartwarming story about the remarkable bond between an aspiring service dog and an autistic boy in need of a friend, told from the dog's point of view.